- A family experiences two traumatic events in a lapse of forty-odd years: the loss of one of the family members and how this affects the others; and the arrival of new neighbors, strangers, who upset the family and supposed social harmony.
- A family seen at two different periods, some 40 years having passed between the two. A dysfunctional family marked by what used to be called an ugly illness, cancer and death. The characters quarrel, hate each other, and refuse to accept in their predecessors what they will eventually, inevitably repeat in themselves. A family marked by relations of rejection, love and hate of the other, the upstairs neighbors, those strangers from a far-off land, Andalusia in the 1960s, Morocco at present, who will also form part of this repetitive game that is life. To what point is everything a metaphor or symbol of our society? Are we really strangers to ourselves?—Ventura Pons
- A family experiences two traumatic events in a lapse of forty-odd years: the loss of one of the family members and how this affects the others; and the arrival of new neighbors, strangers, who upset the family and supposed social harmony. The fragility of family relations, the passage of time, the meaning of existence and, above all, fear and mistrust of the unfamiliar (the stranger, the foreigner, the outsider, the other...) shakes the sensible mentality of these traditional people. We discover that the true strangers are not these neighbors from another culture but we ourselves, who are so reluctant to integrate into our families, our everyday reality, our awareness and our affection.—Anonymous
- It is the 1960's in Barcelona, and the selfish, rude and wicked Emma is the hateful matriarch of a dysfunctional family. Her husband, Francesc, is a pushover; her son Josep is homosexual and her daughter Anna is a rebel teenager. They live in an environment of hatred and prejudice against their upstairs immigrant neighbors. Emma is terminal and when she dies, the pregnant Anna breaks up the relationship with her brother and father and vanishes. Eventually, many years later, Anna returns to her father's apartment ill after an absence of forty years and rejected by her son. She meets her father married to his housemaid Patrícia but her brother Josep and her rebel niece Rosa support her on her deathbed. The awkward situations of her family repeat in a déjà vu forty years later.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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